Brometching is
a method of treating bromoil paper so that the resulting picture shows the
texture of the paper, reminiscent of an etching.

Richard Lluellyn first
described the process in an article published in Amateur Photographer in
1935. This article was probably written
soon after the process had been discovered.

Earlier references to
brometching, some as early as the 1890s probably refer to another process
by the same name, in which lines were drawn over a print in waterproof
ink, then the silver was bleached out, leaving a result similar to an
etching.

Recent Work

Brometching Kit

Kentmere produced products for
the Brometching process in the 1940s. They continued to be sold
until the 1990s.

The products were an
"Etch-Bleach" kit, to be used in conjunction with "Kentint" papers.

Brometching Today

Brometching is still being
carried out today [2003]
by at least one worker, Sri Lankan, Dr Dustan Perera, living in London.

He is also planning to write a
documentary on the Sri Lankan artist, musician and photographer who was a
brometching worker in the 1930s.